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Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…celebrating after 9/11 on TV, or that he was an early critic of the war in Iraq, or that the Chinese created the global alarm over climate change. For this reason, many commentators have invoked the philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s famous analysis of “bullshit” to describe what Trump does when he plays hard and fast with the truth. Unlike a liar, the bullshitter is ultimately unable to distinguish the difference between truth and falsehood and comes…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…esh met and developed their agenda in the U.S.-run prison at Camp Bucca in Iraq. And if we are going to talk about violence and terror, we must not forget the wisdom of the late Coretta Scott King: Poverty can produce a most deadly kind of violence. In this society violence against poor people and minority groups is routine. I remind you that starving a child is violence; suppressing a culture is violence; neglecting schoolchildren is violence; di…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…er se. We sided with Muslims in Bosnia and Albania. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, we fought against some Muslims even as we empowered other Muslims. But while religion isn’t foremost in many of our analyses and forefront in our motivations, many Muslims do perceive these same conflicts as religious. Because religion is more prominent in their worldviews. That’s why some people in the Muslim world link the Prophet Muhammad cartoons to a larger, perc…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an and gay people should be killed rather than jailed Malawi’s bishops are promoting misinformation when they claim first that homosexuality is “alien” to Malawians and second that foreign aid is being used to pressure donor nations to adopt LGBT rights. Misinformation is problematic, but doubly so when used to endorse, implicitly as well as explicitly, anti-LGBT prejudices that have and can lead to discrimination, imprisonment, and violence. Thou…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lation, with the Attorney General making clear that it had no intention of promoting marriage equality. Both proponents and opponents of civil unions and same-sex marriage protested this week in anticipation of the civil unions proposal. The rally was peaceful, but vocal in its outright stand against same-sex marriage, with the biggest cheers going to an organiser who told the gathering that “a few do not decide for the many”. “If the Bermuda Gove…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…ons. In August of 2014, thousands of Yezidis were murdered in northwestern Iraq by ISIL militants, who accused them of practicing Satan worship. Buddhist militants in Myanmar have justified the burning of mosques by portraying the Muslim Rohingya minority as particularly violent. Although it’s difficult to imagine the pagan Viking as a vulnerable minority, the characterization of them as the embodiment of rapacious savagery reveals much about the…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…004 with his first book, The End of Faith, the United States was at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The direct after-effects of September 11th continued to shape domestic and global politics. Twelve years later, with attacks on American Muslims on the rise, and a serious presidential contender claiming that “Islam hates us,” it’s much easier to see the resemblance between New Atheist invectives against Islam and other, more traditional forms of Ameri…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ow that Texas thing works, who those oil folks are and what they wanted in Iraq. I’m a born-again Christian too, but the longer I live, the more afraid I get of some of these religious groups that have so much influence on the Republicans and want to tell us how to live our lives. Haggard also took up for Obama in 2012: I don’t think it makes much difference who the president is. I think there was a big ball rolling before he came into the picture…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…Versions of this argument have been made before. During the selling of the Iraq War and the broader “War on Terror,” for example, both neoconservatives and radical Islamists were invested in the widespread perception of an imminent existential threat to Western civilization. Both were invested in a Clash of Civilizations scenario, and both relied on the power of the apocaplyptic vision to build support for their causes. The anthropologist Kathleen…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…han, the father of U. S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan opened his remarks by introducing himself and his wife as “patriotic American Muslims” with “undivided loyalty” to the United States. “If it were up to Donald Trump” said Khan, his son “would never have even been able to be in America.” “Donald Trump…smears the character of Muslims…disrespects other minorities…He vows to build walls and ban us from this c…